Download or read book Treatise on Hannibal's Passage of the Alps written by Robert Ellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal, the Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in their crossing of the Alps to attack Rome in 218 BCE is long-running, but a particular scholarly dispute arose with the publication of this book by classicist Robert Ellis in 1853.